Spirit Mondays #1 – DIY Team Spirit/School Spirit Tile Coasters

Okay, how many of you are sports nuts? How many of you are/were band geeks? How many of you just love to socialize around a sporting event? Which team/school do you support? What are their school/team colors or mascots?

Are my family and I sports nuts? Nope. But we are band geeks: at least my kids and myself are/were. My youngest plays the trombone in his high school marching band. My middle child quit band his junior year in high school (there was a lot of drama associated with changes in the band directors). My oldest is a member of Ohio University’s Marching 110. So although we are not big sports fans, we support both football and basketball, as marching bands/pep bands do.

Anyway, October is where college football really gets into full swing: they are finished with pre-season games and have started their conference games. With Christmas only being a few months away I thought I’d start a weekly series called….

Each Monday I’ll share with you another crafting idea you can make for the sports enthusiast or student on your holiday gift giving list. This week we’re making…….

DIY Team Spirit/School Spirit Tile Coasters

Supplies:

Ceramic tiles (from your local home improvement store)

Mod podge

Foam brush

Print out of your artwork (laser printer)

Scissors or paper cutter

Felt

Glue gun + glue

Sealer

Directions:

The first thing you need to do is to print off your desired artwork. My tiles are for the Ohio University Marching 110 so I downloaded: (1) The chorus to the school’s alma mater, (2) diamond Ohio, (3) the artwork from the front of their uniforms, and (4) I typed in “110”. I printed these off on a laser printer so the ink would not run when I applied mod podge.

Next, using either a paper cutter or your scissors, crop the artwork down so that it fits onto your tiles.

Using a foam brush, apply a coat of mod podge over the entire top surface of your ceramic tile.

Attach your cut out “papers” firmly to your tiles. Make sure you flatten the paper out completely so that there are no air bubbles.

Once dried, apply another coat of mod podge covering the entire top surface of your newly decorated tile.

Once this layer of mod podge is dried, turn your tile over. Using a hot glue gun, attached four squares of felt to each corner of your tile. (This will keep your coaster from scratching the furniture).

I opted to spray on a sealer coat (polycrylic). Don’t they look nice and professional?

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There’s nothing geeky about that band Marilyn! I’m a huge OU fan now since you’ve been showing me those clips. Now I’ve just got to watch a football game! LOL (I don’t think I’ll ever understand that game. LOL) Talking about teams, I am a huge Yankees fan. I know, different game but I love em!
Anne xx